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Bezos opens Blue Origin to outside investors for the first time in 26 years

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Jeff Bezos is letting outside investors into Blue Origin for the first time since he founded it in 2000. The rocket company is seeking about $10bn in fresh capital at a $130bn pre-money valuation, according to CNBC. For 26 years, Bezos bankrolled the company himself, selling billions in Amazon stock rather than sharing ownership. That solo-funding […]

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Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal

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Databento has raised $97M in Series B funding to build what it calls the market data platform for modern finance. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with DRW, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joining. The company announced the raise on Thursday. Demand ran well past the target. The round was oversubscribed, drawing more […]

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Lyzr used its own AI agent to help raise a $100mn round

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A startup that builds artificial-intelligence agents for large companies has turned that software on itself, using one of its own agents to help run a $100 million fundraise. Lyzr, an enterprise AI agents firm backed by Accenture, says the agent handled much of the investor legwork for a Series B round that would value the company […]

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Rubrik pledges more than $500m for the UK and makes London its European base

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Rubrik, the US data-security company, said it will invest more than $500m in Britain over the next five years and make London its headquarters for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The commitment, announced on Wednesday and worth about £375m, lands as governments across the region press companies to keep sensitive information closer to home, […]

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Alchemab lands £25m from British Business Bank in record life sciences bet

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Cambridge biotech Alchemab Therapeutics has extended its Series A round with a £25 million ($34 million) investment from the British Business Bank, which the company says is the state-owned lender’s largest backing of a life sciences company to date. The money will help the clinical-stage firm build its drug pipeline and expand a proprietary antibody […]

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AI money watch: five funding rounds that matter today

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A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe’s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fresh billion-dollar AI-agent valuation, and European bets on […]

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Venus Aerospace raises $91M to build its ‘detonation’ rocket engine

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A Texas startup has raised $91m to build a rocket engine most of the industry once wrote off as too hard. Venus Aerospace announced a $91m Series B to develop its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE. Mercury Fund led the round. The backers read like a defence roll-call. Lockheed Martin Ventures joined, alongside MESH, […]

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Iluvatar CoreX seeks to raise $850m as China’s AI-chip rally lifts its shares

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A year ago, Iluvatar CoreX was a Shanghai chipmaker that sold mostly to the Chinese state. This week it is trying to raise about $850m from investors who cannot seem to get enough of it, according to Bloomberg, riding a share price that has more than tripled since January. The rally is really the whole […]

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SambaNova raises fresh funding at an $11bn valuation as the Nvidia-alternative trade heats up

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SambaNova has raised fresh funding at an $11bn valuation, according to Bloomberg, capping a run in which the AI chip startup has roughly quintupled its worth in a matter of months. The figure is up from the roughly $10bn valuation reported when the round was first taking shape in late June. The speed of the […]

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Fleek raises $25m to build the AI infrastructure behind global secondhand fashion

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Fleek, a London startup building the software plumbing behind the global secondhand clothing trade, has raised $25m in Series B funding to scale the AI it uses to sort, grade and price used garments. The round takes the company’s total funding to $45m. It was led by Burda Principal Investments, an early backer of Vinted and a […]

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